Mysterious Revival

Chapter 1545 - 1508: The Female Corpse's Experience

When Yang Jian walked out of the paper shop again, he had three paper figures and a female corpse behind him, and as a cost, he lost six yuan of Ghost Money.

Forty yuan, now only thirty-four yuan left.

The more you use Ghost Money, the less you have, and there's no way to replenish it. Yang Jian was thinking about how to gather a hundred yuan to repay Sister Hong, after all, that's a debt that cannot be dodged, it's the life purchase money of four Kings.

Upon returning to Ghost Street, Yang Jian found it a bit inconvenient to have one black and one white paper figure following him, so he simply sunk these two paper figures into Ghost Lake, intending to retrieve them after leaving here.

The reason for buying these two paper figures was he thought he might need something to guard the house.

At the entrance of the paper shop, these two paper figures looked quite good, so he thought of buying them to see if they were useful, especially since the discount earlier was quite tempting.

Besides, the risk wasn't too great to try.

After sending away the two paper figures, Yang Jian discovered that a black smoke unexpectedly started to rise from the beauty paper figure next to the female corpse, followed by a flame appearing on the paper figure.

Quickly.

The blaze rose, and the paper figure caught fire.

"Huh? What are you doing?" Yang Jian asked the female corpse.

A paper figure wouldn't ignite for no reason, and the cause of this fire undoubtedly has something to do with the female corpse.

The female corpse didn't respond but rather walked directly towards the burning paper figure.

The flame on the paper figure was intense, swiftly engulfing the female corpse.

Yang Jian suddenly saw a woman's figure struggling in agony within the flames, crying out as if enduring immense pain. However, after a while, another female figure appeared in the flames. Yet, unlike the first, this figure seemed calm, standing motionless.

However, soon, the struggling figure gradually also became calm, and eventually, the two figures started to merge, finally becoming one, indistinguishable from each other.

The flame was intense but extinguished rapidly, diminishing swiftly in only a moment.

However, at the same time, the figure within the flames became increasingly clear.

Finally, the flames completely died out, leaving a pile of black ashes on the ground, and standing in the middle of the ashes was a woman.

This woman was precisely the female corpse.

However, the female corpse that re-emerged from the flames had undergone some significant changes, though her appearance and figure remained the same, there was now an aura of the living... the aura of life.

Originally a cold and lifeless corpse seemed to have come back to life after being burned by the flames ignited by the paper figure.

"It seems that the beauty paper figure was a piece of the female corpse's puzzle, and burning the paper figure was a means to release the supernatural within. Before, I bought a paper boat from a paper shop, and by igniting it, a real wooden boat was released onto Ghost Lake." Yang Jian's eyes slightly moved, quickly understanding the female corpse's intention.

Yet Yang Jian found it somewhat puzzling, how did the female corpse so precisely know that her other half of the puzzle was in Ghost Street of Taiping Town?

He even vaguely felt that the female corpse deliberately placed her other piece of the puzzle in the paper shop, just to retrieve it upon her resurrection one day.

While pondering briefly, the female corpse had opened her eyes.

At this moment, the female corpse's eyes no longer appeared empty or dull, but rather conveyed the expression of a living person.

It seemed as if something missing had been completed, making her whole being more intact.

"I… am really alive again." The female corpse murmured, her tone revealing a few traces of surprise.

It was as if she hadn't even anticipated that she would be able to come back to life and reappear in this world one day.

"It seems that the present you is the real you." Yang Jian said.

The female corpse looked at Yang Jian, frowning slightly, seemingly recalling something while observing him.

"What are you looking at?" Yang Jian asked calmly.

"I didn't expect you to be so young." The female corpse sighed, "And that I would trust such a young person, knowing that resurrecting me is a difficult task, even in the old days of the supernatural circle it was extremely hard to achieve, let alone in this era now."

"Perhaps that's just my luck."

"I have other matters to attend to, no time to listen to your sentiments." Yang Jian didn't want further delay, seeing the female corpse restored with her puzzle pieces, immediately turned and headed deeper into Ghost Street.

But the newly awakened female corpse remained still where she stood.

"What's wrong? Want to default on the agreement after being resurrected?" Yang Jian turned and said.

"No, I didn't intend to breach the contract, I want you to give me a piece of clothing, the clothes on me are ruined."

The female corpse slowly raised her hand, with just a slight movement, the already tattered clothes disintegrated, turning directly into a pile of fragments.

Evidently, with the female corpse's puzzle complete and her supernatural changes, some external objects also couldn't maintain their previous state anymore.

"Here you go."

Yang Jian reached out his hand, and with the supernatural appearance of the Deceiving Ghost, a piece of clothing materialized out of thin air, which he then tossed over.

"Thank you." The female corpse received the clothing and quickly changed into it.

"No need to thank me. As I said before, this is mutually beneficial. I help you resurrect and gather all the pieces of the puzzle; afterward, you have to help me deal with supernatural events." Yang Jian reminded again, "If you break the agreement, from that moment on, we are enemies. Although I know you're not simple, taking you down shouldn't be a problem."

"This is not a threat, it's a warning."

After Yang Jian spoke, he opened his ghost eye and looked at her again.

"I understand, but don't worry, I won't break the agreement. The promise I made when I was unclear-minded still holds," the female corpse said earnestly.

Yang Jian nodded and continued to move forward.

The female corpse closely followed behind at this moment.

She had just awakened and was still unaware of many things, unfamiliar with this era, which caused her to fall into prolonged contemplation.

However, the more she thought, the more confused she became.

She realized she seemed to have awakened far too late... so late that she already missed an entire era. The current supernatural circle was completely different, totally transformed from the period she knew, and her relatives and friends were certainly all gone, at most leaving behind a few descendants.

"By the way, what's your name? I don't have your information in my memory." After long contemplation, the woman decided to quickly familiarize herself with this era, and she looked at Yang Jian walking ahead.

"My name is Yang Jian. What about yours?" Yang Jian casually started the conversation.

"Me?" The woman fell silent again, "I used to be called... Lin Yunhui, but now that name seems meaningless. I've slumbered for an era, and I want a new name."

She wanted a fresh start, as she had come back to life and didn't want to carry her past burdens anymore.

"A name is just a label; changing it doesn't mean much. You must have been active during the Republic of China Period, but almost everyone from that era is dead; who still knows Lin Yunhui?" Yang Jian said.

"Makes sense. I won't change my name then." Lin Yunhui pondered for a while, finally nodded, and didn't dwell on changing her name.

Yang Jian chatted idly with this woman named Lin Yunhui as they walked.

"Why was your corpse on the Ghost Ship, and why was the other half of the puzzle left at the Paper Shop?" Suddenly, Yang Jian asked a rather significant question.

Lin Yunhui replied, "I don't know why my body was on the Ghost Ship. I just knew I was about to have a ghost resurrection, and I had no solutions to deal with it. I sought help from many people and finally heard about a place called Ghost Street in Taiping Town. People said there might be methods there to solve ghost resurrection."

"After arriving at Ghost Street in Taiping Town, I did find some solutions to the ghost resurrection issue. Near the Paper Shop I was just at, I remember there was also a Chinese medicine store, and the owner could sell a kind of Chinese medicine that delayed ghost resurrection."

"Chinese medicine?" Yang Jian's expression shifted; he still had a packet of Chinese medicine, given to him by an elder from the Republic of China Period.

And could the medicine shop owner Lin Yunhui encountered be the same person?

"Why didn't you take that packet of Chinese medicine?" Yang Jian asked.

Lin Yunhui said, "Because the medicine shop owner wouldn't sell it to me. He said I had no potential and didn't deserve to take the medicine."

Yang Jian calmly said, "It seems that the owner's temperament was quite domineering when he was young."

From this, he could deduce that the medicine shop owner Lin Yunhui spoke of was the same elder from the Republic of China that he knew.

That elder from the Republic of China spent a lifetime waiting for the emergence of a variable.

And his willingness to give Yang Jian three packets of Chinese medicine was surely not without reason; he must have seen some potential in Yang Jian. If this medicine shop owner handed out medicine to everyone, even the most generous couldn't withstand such demands, so he likely only gave or sold medicine to those he deemed potential ghost wielders.

After all, a one-in-a-million variable is unlikely to appear in someone without any potential.

So Lin Yunhui's strength in the supernatural circle during the Republic of China Period was not in the top tier, more like moderate.

But after slumbering for several decades and resolving the ghost resurrection issue, Lin Yunhui might not be the same anymore.

"You couldn't buy the medicine, so you chose the coffin in the Coffin Shop? That coffin indeed suppresses ghost resurrection when you sleep in it," Yang Jian said.

Lin Yunhui said, "Yes, that was the third method I found... The only downside is that buying a coffin was too expensive, and at the time, I couldn't scrape together the money, so I had to sell myself to the Paper Shop; technically speaking, I sold half of myself."

"Sell half of yourself?" Yang Jian's expression shifted.

"Yes, it's a desperate measure. If I could solve the ghost resurrection problem and come back to life, I could figure out a way to retrieve my other half from the Paper Shop. At that time, there were still some friends in the supernatural circle; even pooling money to buy back my paper figurine wouldn't be an issue, but the situation was urgent at that point, and I had no other choice."

"If I couldn't solve my ghost resurrection problem, then nothing mattered."

"A gamble, but a justified one." Yang Jian nodded, thinking Lin Yunhui made the right decision back then.

If you can't even survive, nothing else matters.

Plus, having any solution when facing ghost resurrection is fortunate enough; there's no time to be picky.